With that in mind, Citywire Global has looked at the managers who specialise in dealing in European debt on a short term basis and those which have consistently outperformed in this field.

From a pool 76 managers with a five-year track record in the Bond EUR Short Term (Euro) sector, we find just three managers who have consistently beaten the average manager performance during this period.

Jean-Luc Calvet

Funds: Ocean Croissance C/Valorcourteme

Best year of outperformance: +3.30% in 2008/09

The first of the three managers in our analysis is Jean Luc-Calvet, who has managed to outperform the average manager in each of the past five years while running two European short term bond funds on behalf of CIC Asset Management.

Calvet has honed his experience in the short term European bond market, having run the two portfolios since 1999. He was also noted for his outperformance in the wider European bond market back in January 2012 for his strong track record on three separate

Gérard Leroy

Fund: Union Obli Court Terme

Best year of outperformance: +3.46% in 2009/10

Like Calvet, Leroy also came to our attention in the last study of the short term European bond market back in November 2011. He has maintained his consistent performance at the helm of the €245 million Union Obli Court Terme.

According to the most recent factsheet, Leroy’s performance is founded on a mixture of safe sovereign debt bets (such as short-dated German bunds) and larger, defensive names.

These include companies such as supermarket chain Carrefour, French engineering giant Schneider and German car manufacturer Daimler.

Dr Jens Ehrhardt

Fund: DJE – InterCash I

Best year of outperformance: +2.96% in 2007/08

Breaking the French grip on the consistency crown is Munich-based veteran investor Dr Jens Ehrhardt, who is recognised for his standout performance on the €210 million DJE – InterCash fund.

Showing something of a home bias, Ehrhardt has over one-third of his fund invested in German holdings, this compares to the Netherlands (15%) and Luxembourg (12%), which are also large geographic allocations.

Ehrhardt’s main area of investment at present is financials (20.58%), with a the most noteworthy holding in this area being a short-dated bond for European Investment Bank, which is his second largest position at present.

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